Re: New topic (PowerPC Linux PCI HELL)

[Alan Cox]

> All I wanted was a function that allows the driver to decide that which
> needs to be enabled.
> 
> pci_enable_device(struct pci_dev *dev, byte enable_mask)
> 
> This would allow drivers to enable that which it needs and not weird out
> the hardware that does not like all of this extra fluff.

Sounds not too daft

static inline int pci_enable_device(struct pci_device *dev)
{
        return pci_enable_device_features(USE_IO|USE_MM);
}

and then just go and turn the existing enable_device into enable_device_Features ?

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